In a message posted to all of the backers of the project, inXile said, "This is a paradigm shift that is bigger than Wasteland 2. This is the beginning of a new era in gaming where the developer gets to work directly with the fans to build the type of product that the fans want. The games are fan funded with fan input and use digital distribution methods to bypass both publishers and retail.

The latest status of the now funded project has the number of backers at over 20,000 and the funds pledge at over 1.1 Million Dollars. With over 30 days left until the funding ends, Fargo has hopes of being able to soon announce more features that will be added to the project, saying, "The fact that our supporters are buying in at an average of over $55 each says a lot about the level of dedication the fans have towards this product. No matter how much money is raised, all of it will go into making the best game we possibly can." On the strength of this early success and in response to popular request, he has already added a Linux version to go along with the Mac version at the rapidly approaching $1.5 million milestone.

Verno wrote on Mar 16, 2012, 13:07:Err, not really. Paypal would let them take whatever "pre-sale" percentage they want, all Paypal cares about is getting their own fee. Considering most other funding companies want a percentage of ownership I think a 5% is pretty reasonable, they facilitate the whole thing.

What I meant is that probably KickStarter and Amazon have some sort of exclusive agreement. Amazon wouldn't want PayPal muscling in on their portion of the "take".